Q: Are you a socialist?

Abdul El-Sayed: I'm not. I'm a capitalist who just understands capitalism.

The term capitalism — it was coined by a guy named Adam Smith. And Adam Smith said, "There is no market without rules."

He also said that the biggest danger to capitalism was not government regulation. It was monopoly.

We've got monopolies and oligopolies up and down our economy. It is anti-capitalist.

Abdul El-Sayed on Palestine:

And at the end of the day, I'm interested in whatever solution folks come together [on].

They say they want a two-state solution, great. If they say they want a one-state solution, fine. If they say they want a 23-state solution or a land-for-all solution, fine.

But as the next senator from Michigan, my responsibility is to Michigan — to build schools in Michigan, to provide healthcare in Michigan, to make sure that we got roads in Michigan.

Q: Is there any condition under which you think open borders are acceptable?

Abdul El-Sayed: No. I mean, you have to have borders that you can control. There's no question about that.

Like, at some point it's crazy to think that you would ever not have a closed border.

Q: JD Vance told you to keep his wife's name out of your mouth.

Abdul El-Sayed: Do you remember who brought wives into the whole thing? That was Donald Trump.

A couple days after I was nominated, he tweeted a picture of him and his wife and me and my wife, trying to draw attention to the idea that somehow my wife is less American than his wife.

Except for my wife was born here and his wife wasn't.

So, I'm just saying that at the end of the day, if you don't want to talk about wives, maybe you should talk to your boss about how he brought spouses into it.

Abdul El-Sayed on Palestine:

We've been told by every American president that we believe in a two-state solution, but nobody ever asked me, "Does Palestine have a right to exist?"

Israel exists, but Palestine doesn't, except for we're sending our tax dollars to aid, arm, and abet Israeli leadership right now that wants to foreclose on the possibility of a Palestinian state at all.

And so we need to get to a point where Jewish Israeli kids and Palestinian kids no longer have to fear what happens to them.

And the only way you do that is to create a system by which you enable both of these communities to come together to negotiate how this ought to look like.

I just think we have to have a conversation that doesn't start with the question of states. It starts with a question of self-determination, and then we enable people to make those decisions about how that ought to look like in the long term.

Abdul El-Sayed:

My commitment to the safety of Jewish children and Jewish families is the same as the commitment that I got to the safety of my kids and my family.

We can deeply disagree on how we ought to get equal rights of peace, dignity, and self-determination for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis in the Holy Land, but I will never question whether or not Jewish communities and Jewish families and Jewish children should be safe in our land.

A young Jewish girl was seen spitting on St. James Monastery in Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter despite police being stationed nearby.

Video shows Israeli "settlers" entering Palestinian property in Turmus Ayya during U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s visit to meet an American citizen.

Huckabee filmed the incident.

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has now been cleaned in Thailand.

📸 The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln before and after being cleaned in Thailand.

Europe Not Prepared for a Prolonged War With Russia: Defense Officials

European defense officials fear the continent lacks the capabilities to sustain a prolonged conflict with Russia, especially as the US pushes to reduce its presence in Europe.

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Germany is planning a nationwide “protective shield” against Russian hybrid attacks following a failed explosive-drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport.

The plan includes expanding mobile police drone-defense units, giving critical-infrastructure companies legal authority to actively detect and disable threatening drones, deploying AI-powered surveillance systems and creating a national “Cyberdome” to detect and block cyberattacks.

Source: BILD

Kremlin Calls Putin's Talks With US Envoys Useful but Offers No Sign of Breakthrough

Kremlin described Putin’s three-hour meeting with Witkoff and Kushner as “highly useful,” but offered no evidence that they had narrowed the gap over ending the war.

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Germany’s Isar Aerospace successfully launched its Spectrum rocket into orbit from Norway, marking the first commercial orbital launch from continental Europe.

The launch was Isar’s second attempt after its first rocket exploded in 2025, marking a major step toward Europe developing its own launch capabilities and reducing reliance on U.S. providers.

Russian Deputy FM Sergei Ryabkov says a three-way meeting between Trump, Putin, and Xi Jinping is not ruled out.

Germany's Chancellor Merz on AfD:

We will not let these people — who trash the Federal Republic of Germany and everything we have achieved in recent years and decades, despite all the mistakes that exist, despite all the problems we have...

We will not let these people talk our country into ruin!

The Trump administration is considering letting married families with one stay-at-home parent receive federal child-care subsidies.

The benefit would be about $9,000 per child per year and would come from a $12 billion federal fund currently used mainly to help low-income parents work or attend school.

Source: NYT

A gas station in Kharkiv hangs plastic strip curtains from the pump canopy as anti-drone protection.

Cars drive through them like a warehouse entrance.

The idea is to detangle or prematurely detonate low-flying FPV drones before they hit the pumps.

Russian FPVs have been systematically destroying Ukrainian petrol stations through summer 2026.

German AfD Leader Alice Weidel:

Extremist politics is when you keep our borders open and turn us into foreigners in our own country.

Extremist is when you deliberately destroy our energy infrastructure, blow up nuclear power plants.

Extremist is when you pay social benefits to people who are clan members, have 32 children, and are welfare fraudsters.

We will put an end to this extremist politics, because our goal is to pursue sensible, conservative-libertarian politics for Saxony-Anhalt and for Germany.

Macklemore opened for Ed Sheeran at MetLife Stadium wearing a keffiyeh, performed "Hind's Hall" with Gaza footage on the screens, and told 80,000 people he wanted those in Gaza and the West Bank to know "they have not been forgotten."

He said every human being deserves "the exact same freedom, to know safety and peace before knowing the sounds of violence."

He called ICE a "terrorist organization" and shouted "Free Palestine, free Cuba, Congo, Sudan and Iran."

The Israeli-American Council petitioned to drop him from remaining tour dates.

Germany’s Chancellor Merz admits:

At the moment, we are losing industrial jobs on a large scale, and we must stop this trend.

Germany must remain an industrial country.

If we do not remain an industrial country, then large parts of our prosperity are at risk.